Audrey Abramowicz

Audrey Abramowicz (died 11 September 2001) was a Polish woman who worked at the World Trade Center at the time of 9/11. She worked on the one-hundred-and-first floor of the South Tower as a computer person, and at 8:46 AM on 11 September 2001 her job was interrupted when parts of the ceiling fell on her table after a plane crashed into the South Tower. Abramowicz and a coworker were rescued by Hans Muhler, but they were unable to open any doors in the hallway; Muhler told them to return to their offices and wait for help. They met David Yang at his office, and Abramowicz asked Yang if she could use his satellite phone to call her mother when he was done with his conversation with his wife. Shortly after Abramowicz greeted her mother, another plane crashed into the North Tower, and the phone reception was killed. Abramowicz had trouble breathing, and she protested about Yang's decision to smash open the windows to get the smoke out, as she feared that more smoke would enter the building. Ultimately, Yang decided to jump out of the window, as he knew that help would not arrive, and he did not want to suffocate to death "like a dog" (as he put it). Abramowicz and her coworker both died when the towers collapsed.